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Most actresses wait their whole career for a breakout role. And 24-year-old Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan knows it. Hers was Jenny, the lead character in the Lone Scherfig film An Education, which was adapted from the Lynn Barber memoir about a teenager who falls head over heels for a charming but flawed man. Mulligan's portrayal of a young woman who blooms with love only to wilt upon discovering its complexities has captured the hearts of critics and Oscar voters and has established her as one of the front runners going into the ceremony on March 7. TIME...
...occupy Iraq." But what makes the sheik even angrier is the possibility that a future government in Baghdad might turn over disputed areas of northern Diyala to the Kurdistan Regional Government, a body governing a semi-independent Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq. "If that happens, we won't even wait five seconds," he says. "We'll go to war at once...
...when prodded about the political openness needed to encourage that breakthrough, he snapped back into the language of control. "Consolidated power in Russia is the instrument of modernization. I would even insist it is the only one," he said. "If you want to put the matter on autopilot and wait for squabbling liberals with their endless debates to give birth to an economic miracle, you will be waiting forever. I guarantee you that ... We need the consolidation [of power] that will control the situation...
...want to see polar bears up close, the place to go is Churchill, Man., on the western shore of Hudson Bay. When the ice breaks up in the summer, the bears come ashore by the hundreds to wait for the autumn refreeze. So it's where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...Committee must wait until Commencement Day to have their choice validated. Response among their peers is often quite strong one way or the other, and the Committee is forced to sit by as everyone opines, hoping that their class understands the amount of thought that went into their choice...